CloseWord

CloseWord hides one English word each day and lets you guess as often as you like. Each guess gets a rank by meaning: a word ranked 3 is one of the closest there is, one ranked 380 is in the right neighbourhood, and anything above 1,000 is far off. The FAQ says closeness comes from FastText word embeddings trained on Wikipedia and news text. The game's own share card shows how a run goes: three, room, door and brick are distant, roof and house get warmer, wall is ranked 8, and fence is the answer.

Guesses are listed with a coloured bar, green and blue when very close, yellow and orange when warm and grey when far, and you can sort them by closeness or by the order you tried them. Three hints per game each reveal a word and its rank. In the settings you pick how hints behave: Easy lands about halfway to your best rank, Medium one place better than your best, and Hard at a random rank. Watching an ad earns one more hint. You can also give up to see the answer. Plurals and verb forms rank almost the same as the base word, so there is no need to try both.

The daily word is numbered, the same for everyone in the world, and changes at midnight UTC, with a countdown on the victory screen. Besides the daily there is a practice mode with a new random word each time, a challenge link where you pick a word for a friend, and a multiplayer beta where you race a friend or a stranger to the same word for a rating on a weekly, monthly and all-time table. It is free in the browser, with ads.

It suits players of Contexto and Semantle who like the hunt through related ideas more than spelling.